Students from around the world calculated their class mean and standard deviations for their footprints and posted them on our world map.
Do you see differences across the globe? If so, why do you think those differences exist?
Did you use the calculator to try to reduce your footprint down to the average from a citizen of another country? What changes would you have to make to lower your footprint in this way? Are you going to try and take some of these actions in your daily life?
Student Footprints >
What parts of my behavior impact my footprint the most?
Car rides and using BART for transit impacted my values the most since that slide was the most questions about values and therefore had the highest value for that set of questions. At home, it was heating because heat takes a high amount of gas in order to fuel the heat and ventilation. For food, it was not being vegetarian because the meat industry has a high emissions footprint. For purchases, it was recycling because I just do the most of it.